YouTube blocks Japanese contributors' content for refusing to use its paid version

When it was announced in October, YouTube RED was mostly met with praise. For $9.99 a month, subscribers would get ad-free access to YouTube, access to Google Play, and other bennies.

Not everyone was sold. ESPN has pulled all of its content from YouTube due to what a YouTube spokesperson called "rights and legal issues." At least EPSN got to choose. YouTube has said that companies that do not sign off on YouTube RED will find their videos unavailable to viewers. And it's keeping that promise, blocking a huge swath of Japanese artists from U.S. fans. 

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